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Broken Hill, city (1991 pop. 23,263), New South Wales, SE Australia, near the South Australia border. Since 1883 it has been a principal center of zinc and silver mining in Australia. Broken Hill a city in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop.: 19 834 (2001) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The third paper takes us to Broken Hill where a study of youth social capital paints a worrying picture of alienation and marginalisation among the city's young citizens. Similarly, in the Broken Hill mining community, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, high-precision lead isotopes demonstrated that paint and gasoline were contributors to blood lead ill families, although the dominant source was lead derived from the local ore bodies (Gulson 1996; Gulson et al. BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY, an Australian energy and mining company, will spend US$1 billion to boost production at its Escondida copper mine in Chile. |
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